ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini review -
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Tiny, yet a nice dark looking card with red highlights. ASUS clocks the card at a 928 MHz baseclock, a 1033 MHz Boost clock -- the memory is running reference at 6008 MHz (lots of tweaking headroom left though). Combined with these clock frequencies the card should be fairly close to GeForce GTX 680 performance levels.

The ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DCU mini will come with two GB of graphics memory, that's enough if you are a hardcore gamer with a monitor resolution of 1920x1200. Obviously ASUS uses a custom design PCB as it definitely is a little shorter than reference. Eye catching obviously is the two slot dual fan cooling combo. The design is not the most sexy but it is a very silent GTX 670 card, all that while showing very decent cooling numbers in terms of temperature.

The Boost clock speed is based on the average GeForce GTX 670 card running a wide variety of games and applications. That Boost clock will vary from game-to-game depending on certain power conditions. The card is PCIe gen 3.0 compatible. Going from PCIe Gen 2 to Gen 3 doubles the bandwidth available to the add-on cards installed, from 500 MB/s per lane to 1 GB/s per lane.